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The “Best Light Gun Game” side-event finals include all the games that survived the previous rounds as well as one game that received enough nominations to get a bye. There is 1 poll of 7 games.

Han Solo, who submitted this category, has this to say by way of clarification: “my intentions were to include any type of game where you aim a physical controller at the screen to shoot objects. So a game like The House of the Dead: Overkill would definitely count, because you play it with a Wiimote or a Move controller aimed at the TV despite the controller not actually using light gun technology.”

• You can vote for 1 game in the finals.
• The top game will be the official “BEST LIGHT GUN GAME EVER!!!”
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

VOTE HERE

Finals:
Duck Hunt (1984, NES)
Jurassic Park (1994, Arcade)
Point Blank (1994, Arcade/PS1)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, Arcade)
The House of the Dead 2 (1998, Arcade)
Time Crisis (1995, Arcade)
Virtua Cop (1994, Arcade)

Again, it's interesting how the good games in this finals bracket all came out between 1991-1998. That's a pretty tight cluster. Something about our tech levels made that era particularly amenable to that kind of toy gun shooting at the screen paradigm? I guess it's been made obsolete by VR these days?

I believe there was also pressure in North America following the Columbine school shooting to not release more light gun games. I know that Resident Evil Survivor had light gun support in the Japanese and PAL versions that was removed for the NA release.